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The attorney for an Orlando police officer facing battery charges wants the case handed over to different prosecutors, arguing the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office is “unable to remain objective and pursue the goal of justice.”

Orlando police arrested a man Friday accused of killing a 50-year-old woman, who was found this week in a lake in Rosemont.Octavius Jefferson, 38, is facing a first degree murder charge in the death of Deana Polanco.

Investigators say Nicole Montalvo’s mother-in-law helped get rid of her vehicle in the hours after the slain St. Cloud woman was last seen alive, according to records released Friday.The records revealed the basis for new charges announced this week against Wanda Rivera, 60, who was booked into the Osceola County Jail Thursday afternoon on felony counts of accessory after the fact to murder and evidence tampering.